Blog by author, Clare Jayne

Month: October 2016

“The Woman in Black” by Susan Hill – a chilling ghost story about a lawyer going to a small village where the local people are terrified of a ghostly figure dressed in black. I recommend the most recent film version of this novel, starring Daniel Radcliffe, if you want something scary to watch this Halloween. … [Read more…]

“Brat Farrar” is a book I loved as a teenager so re-reading it is always like a home-coming. The title character is a young man convinced to impersonate Patrick Ashby, the heir to the Latchetts estate, and Brat is increasingly caught up in trying to discover what really happened to Patrick, with deadly consequences. This … [Read more…]

Josephine Tey has written some of my favourite novels, particularly Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes, but I knew nothing of her as a person so I was happy to see that there was going to be a talk about her as part of Nairn’s Book & Arts Festival. The talk was by Jennifer Morag … [Read more…]

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